Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...landmark 1972 study that tracked 10,000 Philadelphia boys, Wolfgang discovered that 77% of white juveniles were let go after an arrest with just a warning, vs. 56% of nonwhites. In a follow-up study published in 1985, Wolfgang found that 49% of the white youngsters were let off, vs. 40% of the nonwhites, an improvement he attributes to the increasing number of black police officers...
...film chronicles the life of "Diana Roth" from before her internment to her release from prison under house arrest. Filled with scenes of brutal police questionings that have become so familiar to movie audiences that they have lost their shock, the film is also a vivid depiction of Roth's inner struggle...
During the first weeks of the protest, police threatened to arrest Homefront '88 members until a city councilor intervened. But it was only two weeks ago that representatives of the group began meeting with city officials...
...accused of participating in the 1985 hijacking of a TWA Boeing 727 and the killing of U.S. Navy Diver Robert Stethem, 23, who was savagely beaten, shot in the head and then thrown onto the tarmac at Beirut airport. The Reagan Administration sought Hammadi's extradition after his arrest last year at Frankfurt airport, but Bonn refused, partly because of pressure by Shi'ite militants holding two West German hostages in Beirut...
...celebration at the crossroads. America transforms into pleasure what it cannot avoid. Hispanic-American culture of the sort that is now in evidence (the teen movie, the rock song) may exist in an hourglass, may in fact be irrelevant. The U.S. Border Patrol works through the night to arrest the flow of illegal immigrants over the border, even as Americans stand patiently in line for La Bamba. While Americans vote to declare, once and for all, that English shall be the official language of the U.S., Madonna starts recording in Spanish...